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TIL Winston Churchill was prescribed alcohol to get around American Prohibition

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eP96 TIL in 2005, the British Medical Journal published a study to investigate the loss of workplace teaspoons
kv7B TIL that one company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, has spun off the Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster, aqcuired About.com, and currently owns 150 online services such as Ask.com, Match.com, OkCupid, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Thesaurus.com.
ZppLR TIL Bruce Willis starred in the movies Armageddon and The Sixth Sense in part due to a lawsuit with The Walt Disney Company
0wALj TIL Napoleon III's Y-chromosome (which is inherited father to son) does not match other member's of the Bonaparte family implying his legal father was not his father and he was not a Bonaparte. There had been rumors during his lifetime that he was illegitimate due his mother's affairs.
e0wOn TIL Soviets were so helpless against the SR71-"Blackbird" that Reagan sent some to secret Soviet meetings, creating sonic booms and drawing figure eights over, letting them know they were being watched and can't do a thing about it.